Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?

In December 2017, our academic medical center implemented universal hepatitis C virus screening among adult hospitalized patients. We reviewed charts of patients screening positive outside the birth cohort (1945–1965) in the first 6 months after implementation. Documented risk factors were common in...

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Autores principales: Winetsky, Daniel, Zucker, Jason, Slowikowski, Jacek, Scherer, Matthew, Verna, Elizabeth C, Gordon, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz178
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author Winetsky, Daniel
Zucker, Jason
Slowikowski, Jacek
Scherer, Matthew
Verna, Elizabeth C
Gordon, Peter
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description In December 2017, our academic medical center implemented universal hepatitis C virus screening among adult hospitalized patients. We reviewed charts of patients screening positive outside the birth cohort (1945–1965) in the first 6 months after implementation. Documented risk factors were common in younger patients but rare in patients born before 1945.
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spelling pubmed-65248252019-05-23 Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C? Winetsky, Daniel Zucker, Jason Slowikowski, Jacek Scherer, Matthew Verna, Elizabeth C Gordon, Peter Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report In December 2017, our academic medical center implemented universal hepatitis C virus screening among adult hospitalized patients. We reviewed charts of patients screening positive outside the birth cohort (1945–1965) in the first 6 months after implementation. Documented risk factors were common in younger patients but rare in patients born before 1945. Oxford University Press 2019-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6524825/ /pubmed/31123691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz178 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?
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title_full Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?
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title_short Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?
title_sort preliminary screening results outside the 1945–1965 birth cohort: a forgotten population for hepatitis c?
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz178
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